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Since April 1999 Benazir Bhutto has been living in political exile in Dubai, from where she tries to direct and consolidate the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP). For the first three years she was able to do this, after the elections in Pakistan in October 2002, however, the first signs of division in the party became visible. The PPP appeared to face the same fate as the Pakistan Muslim League (PML) where, already a few months after the coup d'etat of General Musharraf in October 1999, many former party colleagues of Nawaz Sharif were offering themselves as new political alternatives to the generals. The PML finally became divided into two independent fractions, PML-QA (Quaid-e-Azam) and PML-N (Nawaz). Today the party exists as a main bloc, namely PPP-Parliamentarians, which still follow Benazir Bhutto, and a smaller bloc called PPP-Patriots. The latter voted, after the elections in Parliament, in favour of a government headed by Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali and thus enabled President Musharraf to continue with his policies. They were rewarded with six ministerial posts in the Federal Cabinet and for some of them pending court cases against them were withdrawn. The PPP, although polling the highest percentage (29%) of the votes, could not form a government, neither in Islamabad nor in the Sindh province, a stronghold of the PPP and the Bhutto family. Now in the Opposition her main allies are the Islamic Mutahidda Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) and the PMLNawaz, comprising the rest of the Nawaz Sharif group. Until now the PPP is in total opposition to the policy of President Musharraf and Prime Minister Jamali. As the PPP is presently unable to lure the masses on to the streets, thereby putting pressure on Musharraf its opposition policy will, most likely, be harmful to the Party and Benazir Bhutto. The defection of more party members can be expected. Furthermore, regarding the PPP, probably the only strong democratic factor in the post-General Musharraf era, as comrades-in-arms of the Islamic MMA, is a case of ...

The study examined the coverage of general issues and to find out the performance of Pakistan Peoples Party from 2008 to 2013; through English Pakistani newspaper. The aim of this study to investigate the coverage of general issues that how the newspapers framed these issues in a "Good" and "Bad" frame. Furthermore, these frames were showing the credibility of the government. The quantitative content analysis method was used and, the population, all news stories related to general issues, published in selected newspapers, last five years in a selected Regime from 2008 to 2013 in Pakistan. The systematic Random sampling method was deemed appropriate and employed for this study. The finding of this study shows that The PPP government completed its five years term, in that tenure bad governance was in peak. Due to bad governance, poverty was on peak, and the worst model was adobe to control law and order situation, corruption was on peak, all type of terrorism practically active and had no proper plan to fulfil basic needs of the general public. There were waves of political unrest ahead of the 2008 and 2013 general election. The unfortunate incident happened in December 2007 assassination of Benazir Bhutto, the former prime minister and chair of the PPP, and there were several attacks in KP and FATA targeting leftist politicians and political rallies in the weeks preceding the 2008 general election.

Pakistan People"s party from the day it was formed connected with the masses like no other party in the history of Pakistan. Its socialist slogans and the laborer and peasant friendly policies discussed in their manifesto made Peoples Part a popular party in lower and middle class. People"s party was a center-left party which had Charismatic leadership. Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto and all his associates were intellectually and politically strong. Moreover Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto was a great orator and he always succeeded in connecting with people through his speeches. After Bhutto was hanged Benazir Bhutto daughter of Zulfiquar Ali Bhutto took charge of party .Benazir also as her father emerged as a charismatic leader as she took her political training from her father. Benazir for two times became Prime Minister of Country and went to self-exile in 1999 and returned to Pakistan in 2007 for the elections of 2008. She was assassinated on 27th Dec 2007 but her party won elections of 2008 and ppp formed its government. Yosuf Raza Gilani became Prime Minister and Asif Ali Zardari became party head and later Head of State of Pakistan. PPP was not able to perform well during its tenure from 2008-2013. Government was alleged of corruption Asif Ali Zardari was a controversial personality and many diehard "jayalas" parted their ways from PPP as he was leader. During last days of PPP government opposition raised slogans of "GO ZARDARI GO". There was security and energy crisis throughout the tenure of PPP .After death of charismatic Benazir There was leadership crisis in the party and government there was no face in Peoples Party with which the masses would be able to connect. In result of all this PPP badly failed in 2013 elections. This research paper is based to find out what were the major reasons which resulted in the worst defeat of PPP. To find this out interviews of important personalities which were associated with PPP will be studied and survey and interviews among the masses of such constituency will be conducted which was ...

Democracy, transition to democracy and democratic consolidation have widely been debated across the world and have prominent position in third world countries. Democracy in developing countries particularly in Pakistan is confronting long standing problem of consolidation of power by civilians. In democracy the strength of the state institutions depends on the relationship among central government with opposition and with provincial governments. Pakistan consists of a centre and four federating units having mix nationalities. This paper investigates the factors which have provoked confrontational politics both within the parliament between ruling and opposition parties and with provincial governments especially Punjab during Benazir Bhutto's rule. The paper focuses on the question whether it was the same follies which Benazir Bhutto played with during her second term with opposition in the centre and their governments in provinces. To find answers to these questions, secondary data has been used and to supplement newspapers have been consulted for obtaining first-hand information of public officials. The relationship among the ruling party in the centre with opposition and the provincial governments often remained unpleasant and unfriendly. It is argued that personal the national considerations augmented the confrontation and conflicts among national and regional level political parties.

THIS STUDY ANALYZES THE POLITICAL RHETORIC AND PRACTICE OF THE PEOPLE'S PARTY OF PAKISTAN IN THE EARLY 1970'S. IT SEEKS TO EXPLAIN THE ELECTION SUCCESS OF ZULFIKAR ALI BHUTTO AND HIS "SOCIALIST" COLLEAGUES IN THE PUNJAB, AND THEIR DEFEAT IN THE NORTHWEST FRONTIER PROVINCE. TRIBAL AND RELIGIOUS ALLIANCES ARE MORE SIGNIFICANT IN MOLDING VOTER BEHAVIOR IN RURAL AREAS THAN IN THE CITIES.